Your guesthouse earned that booking. Keep what it is worth.
Family-run hotels across Central Asia hand 15–25% of every reservation to platforms headquartered a continent away. Caravanserai OS is the booking, property and distribution layer built so that margin stays in the region — and in your business.
Status — In development. Founding cohort forming for the Samarkand–Bukhara–Khiva corridor.
Built by the team behind Building OS and the ADAPT Alliance.
What the toll actually costs you
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Try a typical property
- Gross room revenue
- $88,914
- Booked through platforms
- $60,462
- Commission leaving your business
- $10,883
- Kept under a regional channel
- $6,046 – $12,092
- per room, per year
- $907
At 10–20% retained in-region rather than 15–25% paid offshore.
An estimate from the figures you entered, not a quote. Real commission varies by platform, market and season — and rarely downward.
Four pieces, one system
- Your own booking channelNo rate-parity clause · Your guest list, exported any time · Deposits and confirmations in local currency
- A direct booking page for your property, in your languages, with your rates and your cancellation terms. The guest's name, email and history stay with you — because the relationship is yours, not an intermediary's.
- A property system that fits a family businessWorks on a phone at the front desk · Uzbek, Russian and English throughout · Learnable in an afternoon, not a quarter
- Front desk, rooms, housekeeping, rates and a clean nightly close — sized for a property of five to forty rooms run by the family that owns it, not for a chain with a revenue department.
- Readable by the agents that book travel nextOpen protocols, published not licensed · Built on the ADAPT Alliance standard · Discoverable without paying for placement
- Your rooms, rates and availability published on open protocols, so that when a traveller's assistant plans a Silk Road route it can find and book you directly — without you buying a place in somebody's index.
- Settlement designed to stay in the regionLocal currency, local accounts · Payout terms you can actually plan against · Pilot design — proven on the corridor first
- Payment flows intended to clear in-region and in local currency, so the money for a night in Khiva is in a Khiva account — not in a foreign float account for sixty days.
The property you actually run
Five to forty rooms
The size of nearly every guesthouse, boutique hotel and family property on the Silk Road routes. That is the design target, not an afterthought.
The family is the staff
One person on the desk who is also the one ordering breakfast. Every screen assumes that, and nothing requires a department that does not exist.
Your languages
Uzbek, Russian and English across the whole product — the guest-facing pages and the back office alike. Not a translation layer bolted on after launch.
Your data is yours
Guest list, rate history and demand signal, exportable whenever you want, in a format you can read. Leaving is always possible; that is what makes staying meaningful.
Never a commission
A flat subscription by room count when the pilot ends. The whole argument falls apart if we replace one percentage with another.
Free through the pilot
Founding cohort properties pay nothing during the corridor pilot, and help set what the product becomes.
One route is enough to prove it
A single Silk Road corridor — Samarkand, Bukhara, Khiva — measured against a real baseline. If retained margin holds across three cities and a season, it holds across the region.
Samarkand
Registan approach · boutique and guesthouse density
Bukhara
Old-town family properties · the classic 8–15 room house
Khiva
Ichan-Kala · high seasonality, thin margins, clear signal
Founding cohort places are limited to properties on or near this corridor for the first season.
A channel that belongs to the operators who use it
The distribution standard underneath this is published rather than licensed, and developed through the ADAPT Alliance rather than held by a vendor. A regional channel that one company controls is just a smaller toll road. The point is to not build another one.
Twenty properties, one corridor, one season
We are looking for family-run properties on the Samarkand–Bukhara–Khiva route willing to run a real season on a new channel and tell us the truth about it.
What you get
- No cost for the entire pilot season
- Your own direct booking page, set up with you
- Your commission baseline measured honestly, before and after
- A direct line to the people building it, and real influence over what ships
What we ask
- A real property with real bookings — not a test listing
- Your actual numbers, so the baseline means something
- Honest feedback, including when something does not work
- Patience with early software, and the willingness to say so publicly if it earns it
An email address is all it takes to start. We reply to every application.
Caravanserais were the Silk Road's original hospitality infrastructure — built by the region, owned by the region, and open to every traveller who arrived. The proposal is only that the digital equivalent be held the same way.